Quote

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
Author
Writer
Life
Hear
Eventually
Help
Notes
Whether
Integrity
Helping
Deep
Makes
Listening
Home
Listen
Find
Inside
Sings
Way
Ready
Note

More quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Image
It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Our wounds are our sources of growth.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Cancer changes your whole life.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Image
When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those who are able to see us in this way and we become able to know and value ourselves.
Rachel Naomi Remen